Anonymous. Hebrew with Latin translation on facing page. Title within historiated border. pp.160. [Vinograd, Basle 165; Prijs, Basle 129; Adams S-846]. Basle, Ambrosius Froben, 1580

SEDER OLAM RABA

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* BOUND WITH: SEDER OLAM ZUTA. Anonymous. Latin and Hebrew text by G. Genebrardo based on Elias Levita. pp.(48),ff.(1),7-86,(2, blank), lacks 5 introductory Latin leaves. [Vinograd, Paris 59; Adams S-848. Paris, Martinus Juvenis, 1572

Two Midrashic chronologies. The Seder Olam Raba, attributed to Yose b. Chalaphta, is mentioned in the Talmud. It was the first text to establish the era “from the Creation of the World” i.e. Anno Mundi. Alexander Marx attempted a critical edition with a German translation (unfinished) in 1903. The Seder Olam Zuta probably dates to the early medieval period. Abraham Zacuto included large portions of it in his Sepher Yuchasin. A scholarly edition of the Seder Olam Zuta has yet to appear